WEBVTT BACK ANDEVEN USED HANDCUFFS TO SUBDUEHIM.JONATHAN COOPER: HE SAYS THATTHESE GOT INTO THE BACKYARDTHROUGH THIS GATE AND BROKE INTOTHE BACK DOOR, BUT GOT SOMETHINGHE WAS NOT EXPECTING.HE MAY NOT HAVE ANY BROKENBONES, BUT HIS HAND IS BRUISEDAFTER HE PUNCHED A GUY BREAKINGINTO HIS HOUSE.>> I GOT A HOLD OF HIM ANDSTARTED PUNCHING HIM A FEWTIMES.JONATHAN COOPE HE SAYS ITHAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING ATHIS HOUSE NEAR NORTHWEST 23RDAN PENN.HE SAYS HE WOKE UP TO ITS DOGBARKING AND A HOME INTRUDER WASSTANDING IN HIS DINING ROOM.I STARTED YELLING AT HIM ANDHE WENT THOUGH THE BACK DOOR, ICHASED AFTER HIM AND TACKLEDHIM.JONATHAN COOPER: HE SAYS HESTARTED PUNCHIG AND WRESTLINGWITH THE INTRUDER UNTIL HEFINALLY SUBDUED HIM.>> THE ADRENALINE WAS HIGH.JONATHAN COOPER: WITH THE HELPOF HIS FIANCEE, HE PUT HANDCUFFSHE HAD IN HIS HOUSE ON THE GUYAND WAITED FOR POLICE TO SHOWUP.WHILE SEARCHING HIM, POLICE SAYTHEY FOUND STOLEN ITEMS,INCLUDING TWO HEADPHONES, AKITCHEN KNIFE, AN IRON, AND DIETCOKE.>> IT WAS PRETTY CUT AND DRY.JONATHAN COOPER: THE SUSPECT IS

Gray Delacluyse might not have any broken bones, but his hand is bruised after he punched a man who broke into his home near Northwest 23rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.“Not broken, fortunately. I have cool X-rays, too,” he said. “I got ahold of him and started punching him a few times.”Delacluyse woke up around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of his dog barking. He got out of bed and found an intruder standing in his dining room.“I started yelling at him and he bolts for the back door, and I actually chased after him and tackled him off the back of my deck,” Delacluyse said.He said he started punching and wrestling the intruder until he finally subdued him.“Adrenaline was very, very high,” Delacluyse said.With the help of his fiancée, Delacluyse said he put handcuffs he had in the house on the man and waited for police to arrive. While searching the intruder, police said they found stolen items in his backpack, including two headphones, a kitchen knife, an iron and a Diet Coke.“It was pretty easy to turn him over,” Delacluyse said. “It was pretty cut and dry.”The intruder is 17 years old and he has not been formally charged.

OKLAHOMA CITY —

Gray Delacluyse might not have any broken bones, but his hand is bruised after he punched a man who broke into his home near Northwest 23rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Not broken, fortunately. I have cool X-rays, too,” he said. “I got ahold of him and started punching him a few times.”

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Delacluyse woke up around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of his dog barking. He got out of bed and found an intruder standing in his dining room.

“I started yelling at him and he bolts for the back door, and I actually chased after him and tackled him off the back of my deck,” Delacluyse said.

He said he started punching and wrestling the intruder until he finally subdued him.

“Adrenaline was very, very high,” Delacluyse said.

With the help of his fiancée, Delacluyse said he put handcuffs he had in the house on the man and waited for police to arrive. While searching the intruder, police said they found stolen items in his backpack, including two headphones, a kitchen knife, an iron and a Diet Coke.

“It was pretty easy to turn him over,” Delacluyse said. “It was pretty cut and dry.”